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Forgotten Genius
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![Dr. Percy Julian](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090507202004im_/http://nsf.gov/news/now_showing/images/ns_lg_drpercyjulian.jpg)
NOVA presents the remarkable life story of Percy Julian–-one of the most accomplished African-American scientists of the 20th century, and an industrialist, self-made millionaire, humanitarian and civil-rights pioneer. The grandson of Alabama slaves, he won worldwide acclaim for his research in chemistry and broke the color barrier in American science more than a decade before Jackie Robinson did so in baseball. He discovered a way to turn soybeans into synthetic steroids on an industrial scale, enabling drugs like cortisone to be widely available to millions of arthritis sufferers.
See "Forgotten Genius"–-a NOVA film biography of Dr. Percy Julian on PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/julian/
"Forgotten Genius" wins an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Award, see: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111126.
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